SEPTEMBER 2010
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Turner Classic Movies presents the TCM Book Corner.
Every month we will provide the classic movie fan with a link to an excited film related book.
And every month, we will also be giving away several copies of that book in a monthly contest.
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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
Author: James Gavin
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At the 2001 Academy Awards, Halle Berry thanked Lena Horne for paving the way for her to become the first black recipient of a Best Actress Oscar®. Though limited, mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals, "the beautiful Lena Horne," as she was often called, became a pioneering star for African Americans in the 1940s and fifties. Now James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, draws on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews - one of them with Horne herself - to give us the defining portrait of an American icon in Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne (Simon and Schuster). Gavin has gotten closer than any other writer to the celebrity who has lived in reclusion since 1998. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Laurents, and several of Horne's fellow chorines from Harlem's Cotton Club, Stormy Weather offers a fascinating portrait of a complex, even tragic Horne -- a stunning talent who inspired such giants of showbiz as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin, but whose frustrations with racism, and with tumultuous, root-less childhood, left wounds too deep to heal. The woman who emerged was as angry as she was luminous. From the Cotton Club's glory days and the back lots of Hollywood's biggest studios to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at an American icon is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful, ground-breaking biography. To try for a chance to win a free copy of the book, follow the sweepstakes link on this page.
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Acts of Revenge -Thursdays in September
Getting even is the game and we play to win in our 24-film festival that includes such con artist takedowns as The Sting (1973), family honor avenged in Enter the Dragon (1973) and Biblical revenge (Samson and Delilah (1949), among other acts of righting the score.
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Vivien Leigh - Tuesdays in September
She preferred working on stage in front of live audiences but the rare times she appeared on screen reveal her dazzling talent and beauty and our 15-film tribute includes her internationally famous role as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939) plus Anna Karenina (1947) and more.
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Important Schedule Change in September for Patricia Neal Memorial Program
TCM remembers the two-time Oscar® nominee for Best Actress in an five-film salute on Monday, Sept. 13th that includes Private Screenings: Patricia Neal and The Subject Was Roses.
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